I agree with you, toosmartforyou, I could never be a bean-counter either. I
especially like Auditors though, It gives me great joy after they review our
departments operation, check our financial controls and leave disappointed. It
takes a special person to be an auditor. I'm thinking of the character
Inspector Javert from Les Mis. Auditors are neccessary in the business world.

This is pretty good news for the U and USU. With basically an open enrollment
policy and an average ACT of 21 among their students, they might even be making
more hay than BYU with their high end students.

As a businessman, I once asked our accountants how our financials looked. They
answered my question with the question: "How do you want them to look?"
I then knew everything I needed to know about accountants.

Disappointingly, there appear to be many commenters that learned nothing from
the recent bankruptcies and scandals that have rocked our economy (Enron, Bernie
Madoff, etc.). The need for highly trained, ethical financial professional has
never been greater. Just consider the tax code changes coming our way, as
Congress seeks to reduce deficits!

Furthermore, do a quick Google
search to find jobs with top growth rates. Accounting is consistently in the top
3. So mock if you will, but I doubt that smart students who want jobs will be
laughing at your myopic views.

Good catch, Naval Vet, that I misspelled "bean." Sometimes I try and
send out something and the old fingers just don't follow the brain too
well, you know, like when the QB throws a pass to a wide-open receiver but the
ball goes somewhere else other than the intended target.

I'm
really not very smart, admitedly, but I am not going to call myself "dumber
than rocks" and I don't bother to lower myself to make fun of others
screen names. It is just too easy to reach down to the lowest common
denominator to do that; I'll leave that practice to others....

But thanks for writing. Now, go count your "beans" in PAC 12 Football
victories---that should be easy and take little time because you seem to have so
few.